Richard Dawkins: 'The God Delusion'

[Bart Meerdink]

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Een boek over de de schade die aangericht wordt door het waanidee.

Fragmenten uit twee hoofdstukken:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm

  In The God Delusion, the scientist Richard Dawkins sets out to attack
God "in all his forms".

He argues that the rise of religious fundamentalism is dividing people
around the world, while the dispute between "intelligent design" and
Darwinism "is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of
science".

THE GOD DELUSION
by Richard Dawkins

FROM CHAPTER 7: The "Good" Book and the changing moral Zeitgeist

There are two ways in which scripture might be a source of morals or
rules for living. One is by direct instruction, for example through the
Ten Commandments, which are the subject of such bitter contention in the
culture wars of America's boondocks. The other is by example: God, or
some other biblical character, might serve as - to use the contemporary
jargon - a role model. Both scriptural routes, if followed through
religiously (the adverb is used in its metaphoric sense but with an eye
to its origin), encourage a system of morals which any civilized modern
person, whether religious or not, would find - I can put it no more
gently - obnoxious.

To be fair, much of the Bible (.... knip)

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